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...fascination with Japan's perceived strangeness stretches from the beginning of films - when actor Sessue Hayakawa was one of the first Hollywood stars - to today. In the new Brit comedy Bridget Jones's Diary the heroine's mum blithely describes the Japanese as a "very cruel race." And if you think the Japanese cannot portray themselves as very cruel, check out Teruo Ishii's Joy of Torture films. In these two gore classics from the '60s, victims of feudal lords are roasted, splayed, beheaded, crucified and otherwise inconvenienced. These are not the only examples of cinematic exploitation and self-criticism...
Other names often mentioned at the time as possible picks included Kingman Brewster, the president of Yale University; Samuel I. Hayakawa, the president of San Francisco State College; and McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation and a former confidant of John F. Kennedy...
TheTokyo subway gas attackwas just a rehearsal for a planned aerial bombardment of Tokyo with deadly liquid sarin, the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper reports. According to the paper, a notebook kept by Kiyohide Hayakawa, theAum Shinrikyo cult's No. 2 leader, details plans to destroy Japan's leadershipin a series of simultaneous guerrilla raids starting as early as next November. According to Ikuo Hayashi, another cult leader, the cult hoped to set up an "Aum Kingdom" by killing the country's top officials. The new disclosures add more fuel to speculation thatcult guru Shoko Asahara was planning to cause the apocalypse...
...Tokyo subway gas attack was just a rehearsal for a planned aerial bombardment of Tokyo with deadly liquid sarin, the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper reports. According to the paper, a notebook kept by Kiyohide Hayakawa, the Aum Shinrikyo cult's No. 2 leader, details plans to destroy Japan's leadership in a series of simultaneous guerrilla raids starting as early as next November. According to Ikuo Hayashi, another cult leader, the cult hoped to set up an "Aum Kingdom" by killing the country's top officials. The new disclosures add more fuel to speculation that cult guru Shoko Asahara was planning...
Still, in the casting offices, there is a dawning of hope. Jason Scott Lee, the Hawaiian-born Asian who played Bruce Lee in the spring hit Dragon ($35 million in the U.S., plenty more abroad), could be the first major Asian hunk in Hollywood since Sessue Hayakawa 75 years ago. "In this town Jason instantly became somebody who could star in a movie," says Chris Lee, senior vice president at TriStar Pictures and one of several Asian Americans (Teddy Zee at Columbia, Bonni Lee at Geffen, Richard Sakai at Jim Brooks' Gracie Productions) inching their way up Mogul Mountain...